The New Management of British Local Governance

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Introduction: The Unintended Costs and Benefits of New Management Reform for British Local Government....Pages 1-21
Management Change in Local Governance....Pages 22-39
Letting Managers Manage: Decentralisation and Opting Out....Pages 40-61
The Contracting-Out of Local Government Services: Its Impact on Jobs, Conditions of Service and Labour Markets....Pages 62-78
Two Economic Discourses in the New Management of Local Governance: Public Trading and Public Business....Pages 79-96
The New Management and Governance of Education....Pages 97-111
The New Management of Community Care: User Groups, Citizenship and Co-Production....Pages 112-127
Reframing the Delivery of Local Housing Services: Networks and the New Competition....Pages 128-144
Community Governance of Crime Control....Pages 145-167
Networks in Post-16 Education and Training....Pages 168-180
Networking for Local Economic Development....Pages 181-196
Networking in Europe....Pages 197-221
The Private Financing of Public Infrastructure....Pages 222-236
Something Old, Something New....Pages 237-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-280